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09-09-2016, 09:47 AM
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Re: Star Trek is awesome
* JoeP has been watching TOS
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09-09-2016, 12:48 PM
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Safety glasses off, motherfuckers
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Re: Star Trek is awesome
It's going to be okay. - The Oatmeal
Honestly did not know this, but it makes Roddenberry’s life story so much better.
Happy (slightly belated) 50th anniversary, Star Trek.
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09-09-2016, 01:11 PM
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Re: Star Trek is awesome
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The first aired episode of Star Trek, "Where No Man Has Gone Before," premiered on NBC September 8, 1966. [It actually aired 2 days earlier on Canadian television.]
So, as of today, Star Trek is 50 years old.
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I thought, despite being a pilot (and not having the full regular cast), it was the 3rd episode aired? "Man Trap" being the first.
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I think you're right. The article I read claimed that "Where No Man Has Gone Before" was the first episode aired, but according to Wikipedia, it was "The Man Trap." I should have double-checked my sources.
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09-09-2016, 01:18 PM
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Re: Star Trek is awesome
Also according to Netflix.
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09-09-2016, 05:01 PM
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Re: Star Trek is awesome
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That's really cool, and you'd have to be a total asshole to pick them apart.
That Vulcan "WOW!" is looking awfully damn emotional. More apt would be like one raised eyebrow and say "Fascinating". I supposed it could be a Romulan, but I'm not ready to give them that much credit.
Why is Geordi crying? Poor Geordi, did the ship break up with him again? But can he even tear up like that? If I saw that I would assume something was wrong with his Visor.
Of course the Klingon is the angry one. Fucking racist.
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09-09-2016, 05:25 PM
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Re: Star Trek is awesome
I agree with Ensigns Steve.
I also have a problem with the LLAP being used for LOVE. LOVE IS AN EMOTION, FACEDORK, SOMETHING VULCANS ESCHEW.
The only most appropriate one is ANGRY. Not that Klingots are necessarily angry, just that their aggressive nature comes off as angry to soft and uncultured humangs.
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09-09-2016, 05:48 PM
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Re: Star Trek is awesome
Also it's by far the cutest.
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09-09-2016, 11:56 PM
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Re: Star Trek is awesome
I skipped Khan entirely, and from the sounds of it, didn't miss much.
I enjoyed Beyond. The actors have grown into their roles a little further and stopped trying quite so hard and failing so painfully at imitating characters from a campy 60's scifi. That's not going to happen, they'd better make us appreciate them for their own merits, and, they're trying. I love how Spock keeps giving Bones legitimate reasons to keep a grudge. Kirk seems more serious and capable. Scotty seems the least compelling to me. There won't be another Doohan, and hasn't developed much of his own schtick. He seems just as amazed as anyone else when his contraptions actually work.
I also enjoyed the complete lack of time travel, and the human villain. It's as if events sometimes have consequences.
Everything's much more quick and informal. Starfleet doesn't seem very austere anymore. Maybe that's what happens when you kill all Vulcans.
Destroying the Enterprise again was a cheap shocker. Let's face it, pretty much tradition in Star Trek movies though. Usually it's an away team which has mercy on us and moves the setting off-ship, in a movie, the stakes move a little higher.
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09-10-2016, 02:23 AM
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Re: Star Trek is awesome
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09-10-2016, 03:40 AM
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Re: Star Trek is awesome
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Also it's by far the cutest.
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You just like him cuz he looks like
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09-10-2016, 05:01 AM
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Re: Star Trek is awesome
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09-10-2016, 12:03 PM
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Also it's by far the cutest.
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You just like him cuz he looks like
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09-10-2016, 06:33 PM
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Re: Star Trek is awesome
List of Star Trek: The Original Series episodes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia has the details.
The first episode to air was "The Man Trap", featuring a shapeshifting salt vampire.
The second pilot, "Where No Man Has Gone Before", aired third.
The first pilot, "The Cage", was folded into "The Menagerie", airing in the middle of the first season.
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09-12-2016, 01:03 PM
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Re: Star Trek is awesome
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It's like Abrams thought, "'Star Wars,'" "'Star Trek'" -- what's the difference?"
But there is a difference -- a pretty darned big one. Well, there should be, anyway. Abrams doesn't seem to understand that.
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And you only need to look at the trailer for Beyond. The Beastie Boys' Sabotage. Really? Jesus! I like the Beastie Boys a lot but Sabotage is not Star Trek material. At all.
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09-12-2016, 08:11 PM
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Re: Star Trek is awesome
Star Trek has had extremely little to do with music, period... Besides the inevitable elevator music which doesn't change for 7 seasons straight, there's Spock's harp, Picard's flute, one or two plot elements, and the occasional bunch of embarrassing hippies. Oh, and Klingon Opera. Nobody expresses themselves much in the shiny spacefuture, and those who do, we really wish they wouldn't.
As I understood it, this was because Roddenberry never wanted the series to focus on Earth... Earth was 5 years away and unimportant, the series ran "out there", where humanity expressed itself just by contrasting with whatever ad-hoc clapboard setting they were orbiting today.
These programs would've aged painfully if they'd tried to be 'contemporary' anyway (cough old battlestar galactica cough) but they paint a very sterile, quiet future... They haven't done a convincing job of showing what human life is really like in the setting.
So, on the whole, I'm not actually against music in trek. 5 seconds of Beastie Boys is better than classical forever...
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09-13-2016, 03:17 AM
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Re: Star Trek is awesome
There's lots of good music in the Voyager. Harry Kim plays clarinet and Seven of Nine plays piano and sings, and the doctor sings opera. Also in TNG riker plays trombone and Data plays violin (his mom plays viola) and Dr. Crusher dances.
There's lots of music in those shows. Not beastie boys tho
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09-13-2016, 03:23 AM
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I read some of your foolish scree, then just skimmed the rest.
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Re: Star Trek is awesome
A lot of it has to do with licensing issues. When you are a TV show that strains its budget you can't really spend extra to license modern music.
Although I disagree that it's all elevator music,
They did dabble in some Jazz,(yes that's really Sisko singing).
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09-13-2016, 04:42 PM
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Re: Star Trek is awesome
TNG episode with the radioactive waste ship:
"Lethal exposure in 30 seconds" or something..
If that's the case, why aren't you all lying on the floor vomiting?
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09-15-2016, 04:48 AM
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happy now, Mussolini?
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Re: Star Trek is awesome
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Originally Posted by Corona688
Star Trek has had extremely little to do with music, period... Besides the inevitable elevator music which doesn't change for 7 seasons straight, there's Spock's harp, Picard's flute, one or two plot elements, and the occasional bunch of embarrassing hippies. Oh, and Klingon Opera. Nobody expresses themselves much in the shiny spacefuture, and those who do, we really wish they wouldn't.
As I understood it, this was because Roddenberry never wanted the series to focus on Earth... Earth was 5 years away and unimportant, the series ran "out there", where humanity expressed itself just by contrasting with whatever ad-hoc clapboard setting they were orbiting today.
These programs would've aged painfully if they'd tried to be 'contemporary' anyway (cough old battlestar galactica cough) but they paint a very sterile, quiet future... They haven't done a convincing job of showing what human life is really like in the setting.
So, on the whole, I'm not actually against music in trek. 5 seconds of Beastie Boys is better than classical forever...
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There is the 10 seconds of "The Alba Ra, a contemporary Talarian musical form" in the TNG episode Suddenly Human.
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09-17-2016, 10:04 PM
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Re: Star Trek is awesome
I can't believe Moondoggie turned into such a square, singing that lounge music.
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09-18-2016, 04:35 AM
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happy now, Mussolini?
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Re: Star Trek is awesome
And while we're on the subject of Star Trek and music, Gates McFadden is in the new Onsen video.
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09-24-2016, 03:25 AM
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happy now, Mussolini?
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09-24-2016, 05:08 PM
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Re: Star Trek is awesome
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10-01-2016, 04:24 AM
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10-01-2016, 04:53 AM
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I read some of your foolish scree, then just skimmed the rest.
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Re: Star Trek is awesome
Darmok, when the Iron Curtain fell.
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